Example sentences of "but i [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I meant what I said ; providing she stops attacking you , she 'll always be welcome with us , ’ Travis reiterated his promise . |
| 2 | It is no good the person who gave the order later complaining ‘ But I meant you to do so-and-so ’ . |
| 3 | What about that , but I meant she got ta think about , she 'll want children of own and then she 'll have chi |
| 4 | But I meant it . |
| 5 | I realised Michael could save me maybe five years of work , but I figured I 'd rather go slow and steady than to go fast and have it all fall apart . |
| 6 | But I knew they were living in the past , knew too that there was no way that Allan Wells was going to beat me . |
| 7 | Mostly I hate chimneys , but I knew they 'd rest my finger tendons and Sue Grimley needed a partner from Milenecka . |
| 8 | But I knew they came from my convict , and I felt that having criminal friends made me more common than ever . |
| 9 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 10 | A slight exaggeration but I knew what he meant . |
| 11 | But I knew what Robins meant . |
| 12 | I felt the world beginning to drift into the distance again , but I knew what was happening this time and got my head down quickly . |
| 13 | I was n't totally prepared but I knew what it was like . |
| 14 | But I knew what was really worrying her at that moment . |
| 15 | She did n't say which few , but I knew what she meant . |
| 16 | But I knew what I 'd be confronted with at the hospital — my mother speechless and locked in a paralysed body . |
| 17 | Anyway , at about half past two , I got up to go to the loo and my waters broke — just a trickle , but I knew what it was . |
| 18 | I tried to shake it from my mind as I shook the water from my hair , but I knew what that face felt like from the inside . |
| 19 | But I knew what I had to do , so I did it . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Yeah , but I knew we 'd win . |
| 21 | So we lost , but I knew we would . |
| 22 | ‘ Ah , but I knew we had a first-class lifeguard on board . ’ |
| 23 | I knew — it sounds corny — but I knew we were meant to be , that we were simpático . ’ |
| 24 | But I knew nothing at all about Tohoku University , or about the city of Sendai . |
| 25 | I met her in Cambridge and she introduced me to her new boyfriend who was a Dutchman called Erik Hazelhoff-Roelfzema , I was most impressed with this keen and very handsome young man , but I knew nothing whatsoever about him save that he was anxious to get into the Pathhnders . |
| 26 | I had moved the rubber-handled wrench from the right side of the driver 's seat to the left but I knew its presence was mostly psychological . |
| 27 | He thought : I knew this man , not well but I knew him . |
| 28 | He blustered and turned scarlet as if caught out in a crime , and tried to bluff it out , but I knew him too well . |
| 29 | He was born in France , but I knew him in Persia . |
| 30 | This was best summed up by Everett , the market gardener : ‘ She were never a gel , but I knew her as a young woman and she were old then . ’ |